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Assessment feedback, which is an important factor in student learning development, has been a source of dissatisfaction for many years. The technology used in universities such as Gradebook does not allow the tracking of student engagement with their feedback. In general, engagement is mainly reported via observation or students' self-report. This paper presents results from using a prototype application...
High-performance computing (HPC) is recognized as one of the pillars for further progress in science, industry, medicine, and education. Current HPC systems are being developed to overcome emerging architectural challenges in order to reach Exascale level of performance, projected for the year 2020. The much larger embedded and mobile market allows for rapid development of intellectual property (IP)...
This project includes an assessment and analysis of a prototype wireless sensor for monitoring critical infrastructure of bridges. The research is divided into two parts: the first focuses on the study of Wireless sensor networks, presenting various technical approaches to architecture, form of communication, and topologies available, the design of the transport network is performed based on Radio...
Recent technological advances have accelerated the design and worldwide deployment of mobile payment systems (m-payment). However, m-payment over open devices and networks poses security challenges of a new dimension that users disclose lots of sensitive information and privacy can't be protected properly in open environment. In this paper, we propose a mobile payment architecture employing with trusted...
Increased dependency of the human society on the Electrical Energy, demands extra provision for sophisticated monitoring and control. The Monitoring of the Electrical System involves observing whether all the electrical parameters like voltage, power, current are within the scheduled limits or not and the Controlling of the Electrical System involves the necessary actions that are to be taken if the...
Sensors capable of operating in harsh environments for long periods of time and having wireless readout capability are needed for mapping environmental conditions in remote areas, such as polar regions. In this paper, we report the first measured results of an innovative in-situ system of controllable and wind-opportunistic spherical mobile sensors (called Moballs), used to monitor and map various...
Daily management of neurodegenerative diseases by electrical neuromodulation techniques requires an integrated health care system for the continuous assistance to the patient. In this scenario, a direct bi-directional exchange of information between the patient's electronic health record (EHR) and patient's personal mobile health apps (mHealth) can boost the active contribution of patients and caregivers...
This paperwork describes the development and test of circuitry and software to enable the use of Android mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth to receive the incoming electrocardiogram (ECG) signal from a user and show it in real-time on the cell phone screen. The system comprises three distinct subsystems. The first one is dedicated to condition the analog ECG signal, preparing it for conversion...
With the increasing popularity of smart phones, location-based services became a hot topic and a great number of solutions were presented over the last years. The majority of applications are based on the idea to present location-specific information in case the smartphone user asks for it. A relatively small amount of applications are dealing with geo-notifications that are intended to inform the...
Introduction: Recent development in digital technology has raised the interest of many researchers in implementing technology in the domain of m-health to provide better service to patients. Capecitabine, an oral chemotherapeutic agent causes several side effects which need to be monitored to avoid severe health consequences in patients. Methodology: A multidisciplinary team of pharmacists, clinicians...
The term ecological validity refers to the study of the measurable correspondence between experimental design and ecological setting (i.e., Representative users performing real tasks in their natural environment). Therefore, it is important to anyone intending to generalize the conclusions from the particular circumstances of an experiment to wider ecological situations. However, there is no operational...
Neck pain and other spine related injuries are on the rise. One potential cause is bad head posture while using digital devices. We present two systems to monitor and improve head posture for two of the common problematic cases: laptop and mobile phone use. The laptop system uses the front-facing camera. The mobile system the sensor data of a smart glasses prototype. Both systems work reasonable in...
We developed a prototype system for supporting presentation with a mobile PC in distance education, which have been designed to keep eye contact between students and a lecturer and to facilitate finger pointing by a lecturer in videoconference. Despite convenient functions supporting videoconferencing, it is often difficult to keep the awareness and attention information during remote lectures. Our...
This paper introduces the technical description of ICT R&D project Fall Detection -- HOLDS. The purpose of this project is to quickly assist elderly people or people who have a cognitive or motor disability when they suffer a fall at outdoor and indoor spaces. The project is aimed at enhancing the safety of these target groups and allows the elderly and impaired to carry out a more normal...
In the field of wireless health monitoring for specially old age people cognitive wireless sensors which can monitor the daily activities have been reported to be of great importance. Usually a large number of sensors like motion sensor, current sensor, force sensor and flow sensors are widely employed. However there are redundancies in the system and it is required to reduce the number of sensor...
Environmental monitoring is a key concern in underground mines, such as part of the copper mine of Codelco-Chile's Andina Division, in the central part of the country. The concentration of dust is important due to its negative effect in workers health. Regrettably, sensors for this parameter are costly and therefore implementing a full scale monitoring network of static devices can be prohibitive...
We describe a swarming-agent-based, mixed initiative approach to infrastructure defense where teams of humans and software agents defend cooperating organizations in tandem by sharing insights and solutions without violating proprietary boundaries. The system places human administrators at the appropriate level: where they provide system guidance while lower-level agents carry out tasks humans are...
The pervasiveness of the mobile phone culture in informal economies in underdeveloped countries, as well as in immigrant communities in developed countries even in areas devoid of electricity and computers has been a motivation for the development of two mobile phone applications presented in our paper. The first is an account book application based on goal oriented accounting and the second is a...
Pervasive healthcare technology is one of the methods for meeting the challenges of an aging population in many western world countries, as well as an expected major shortage of healthcare personnel. The OpenCare Project is an open source infrastructure framework, designed to be used by researchers and corporate developers for developing experimental assistive living prototypes. The Personal Communication...
Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, is one of the most active dome building volcanoes worldwide. Instabilities at the growing dome cause rockfalls and hot block and ash flows, which can reach run-out distances of several kilometers. Therefore, Merapi has been monitored extensively for many years. However, direct visual observation of the dome is often impossible due to cloud coverage of the summit. In October...
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